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Connecting Voices: Opera North and Leeds Playhouse join forces for a season of live performance
Samuel Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape - Niall Buggy (Photo Robert Workman) Opera North is joining forces with Leeds Playhouse to stage six live-performance pieces in and around Leeds Playhouse on three weekends in October. Audiences will be able to experience, safely, live music and performance once again. The season, Connecting Voices, will feature Poulenc's La voix humaine performed by soprano Gillene Butterfield [last seen in Opera North's production of Kurt Weill's Street Scene, see my review] and directed by Sameena Hussain, Leeds Playhouse RTYDD Director, and a new piece, Orpheus in the Record Store commissioned from Leeds based beatboxer Testament and directed Aletta Collins. Orpheus will fuse spoken word and beatboxing with players from the Orchestra of Opera North, in an exciting new collaboration that gives the Greek myth of Orpheus a contemporary Yorkshire twist. Samuel Beckett's extraordinary monologue, Krapp's Last Tape will be performed by Niall Buggy, directed […]
2018-12-05 16:48:00
Spitalfields festival, LondonA soprano’s Handel cantata is interrupted by Joy Division, turntablism and artist Haroon Mirza’s take on a Beckett play – in this elusive multimedia piece Given its world premiere by Spitalfields music festival, Unknown, Remembered … is a big, site-specific multimedia piece about trauma and loss. Part music theatre, part installation, it occupies two rooms in Studio 9294, east London’s new arts centre in Hackney Wick. In the first, soprano Katherine Manley performs Handel’s cantata La Lucrezia, railing in despair against the man who raped her, before contemplating suicide. After we move, partway through, to room two, actor Richard Strange gives us The Last Tape, artist Haroon Mirza’s reimagining of Beckett, which follows the dramaturgy of Krapp’s Last Tape, but replaces the original text with words by Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who took his own life in 1980. The rooms are linked by Mirza’s images of turntables, radios […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-08-10 20:01:35
Why 'Krapp's Last Tape' Still Leaves Us (Ahem) Reeling
"Albert Finney sobbed like an animal, Harold Pinter ramped up the terror and John Hurt even resembled Beckett himself." Why do actors and viewers keep coming back to the play - even, as Michael Billington writes, "someone like myself, who is not a fully paid-up member of the Beckett club"? Well, Billington says, "it is partly because of its perfect alliance of form and content."
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2017-02-16 15:23:59
David Garrett gets over the heartbreak
[…] Komponist und Dirigent 1996 Wolfgang Niedecken, Sänger und Songwriter 1995 Tabea Zimmermann, Bratscherin 1994 Brian Eno, Musiker und Klangkünstler 1993 Harry Kupfer, Regisseur 1992 Georg Solti, Dirigent 1991 Aribert Reiman, Komponist 1990 Chick Corea, Jazz-Pianist 1989 Ludwig Güttler, Trompeter 1988 Heinz Holliger, Oboist 1987 Carl Dahlhaus, Musikwissenschaftler 1986 Albert Mangelsdorff, Jazz-Posaunist 1985 Brigitte Fassbaender, Kammersängerin 1984 Alfred Brendel, Pianist 1983 Edgar Krapp, Organist 1982 Gidon Kremer, Geiger
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